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Originally Posted by SHiRO
Except it is not true.
Greater London has over 3,2M foreign born residents (2011) and unofficially even more. Versus just 1,4M for the City of Toronto. So it's not even close. In fact, it's not even half.
And guess what, Toronto is behind Paris as well! So it's not even a question of London being 4th, but of Toronto being 5th!
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You guys are not getting what people are talking about.
On a percentage wise, Toronto's foreign born population makes up a larger percentage of the population.
Also, cities like London, Paris, Miami, LA. They all tend to have immigrants from just a few places that make up a large percentage of the foreign born population. Where in Toronto, everyone is a so called minority, because we have large populations of immigrants from all around.
Yes there is diversity elsewhere. But I think you need to live in Toronto for to understand why Toronto is just on a whole different level.
It is not touting Toronto as better. It is just stating that Toronto's experiences are different from other places. Add to that Toronto's previous urban planning principles of mixing income levels and housing types, and you get into the situations where there has been a lot more mixing of cultures living close together than in other places.
I grew up for example in your typical 60's suburban subdivisions. But down the street from me was apartment housing. Kids from both places went to the same school, where I interacted with every new immigrant group that came through Toronto in that period. From the Jamican's, to the Polish fleeing communism, to one of my best friends who's family were Catholic refugees from Israel, right on down to the newest immigrants from Southeast Asia.
It is just totally different and I think you have to live in Toronto to see how different it is.
NYC has immigrants, but metropolitan wide, the percentage of immigrants is not as high, and there are whole swaths of the metro region where residents basically never interact with an immigrant.
So stop looking at it as touting Toronto as being better. It is just a different experience, and an outstanding and very rewarding experience at that.